That’s the clutch and brake pedals…
USA citizen having no clue about the existence of manual gear-box in vehicles, probably.
I haven’t driven a stick in over a decade and this meme upsets me.
They just added the caption. If the creator of this were capable of making the drawing, they would do something more with their life than memes.
You can’t find an image of pushing the brake and throttle at the same time on wikihow.
I think you drastically underestimate the number of gearheads in the States. Makes sense, given we have incredibly limited public transport. Currently have 3 manuals in my driveway.
Of course, it a joke based on the fact that manual gearbox is, even to this day, the standard in Europe. I would be very surprise to meet someone with a driver license who can’t drive manual. It seems in the USA manual driving is a hobby for car enthusiast. But what do I know? I have never step foot on the new continent.
Am US citizen, only drive manual transmissions. Anyone here who likes cars can drive a manual transmission, anyone who doesn’t like cars doesn’t give a shit about a manual transmission and just wants to get where they’re going.
We invented cars, we’re allowed to decide how they evolve.
We did?
Spray cheese - yes. Cars? No.
American too. I don’t really like cars, but if I have to drive one, I would prefer one with a manual transmission. Unfortunately, my current car doesn’t have one because they don’t put them in affordable cars anymore.
Because they’re objectively worse in all measures other than fun
Because they’re objectively worse in all measures other than
funcontrol.
Yeah well it’s hard when you hear all your life if you mess up once you blow the transmission,.which is a several grand repair, nobody with a manual will ever let you practice on their car and well hey automatics are everywhere and don’t have that headache.
They may have exaggerated the risk of a money shift a tiny bit. Stalling is easy, but blowing the car up has to be hard.
You would really have to do it on purpose to blow up your transmission. These guys had to try pretty hard
Nah, you just can’t without being a complete psychopath I guess force in a too wrong gear, the sync won’t be able to spin so fast that you can actually put in a ridiculous gear.
And reverse is usually not synced so even harder.
Geez you are pitiful
Third pedal is there tho
The third pedal becomes invisible to the ignorant minds.
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The fools, this actually reboots the car into safe mode!
Joke appart, this is the proper way to do an emergency braking.
And if you have an acceleration-activated dash-cam this could cause it to trigger, which is as near to a screenshot as you’re getting!
Wow, this post isn’t even a meme anymore at this point !
Exactly. They take a screenshot.
Turn the car off, shift to 4th gear, press break, break and windshield wiper, then turn it back on to enter Service Mode
You joke but my old FJ Cruiser requires you to turn the key to accessory, turn it off, turn the key back to accessory, open and close the door three times, turn the key back off, turn the key to accessory while holding the odometer reset button for 5 seconds and then it will enter pairing mode for the remote fob.
It made me feel the same joy as pressing the option on my Android phone 5 times to enter development mode back in the mid 2010s but it gets old quick.
And for this next trick, we will dance the macarena while reciting the alphabet backwards and jumping on one foot!
Built in sobriety test, how nice!
We need to test a vehicle on a dynamometer and to get the transmission into dyno mode it was something like that, press brake 3 times, press the button on the shift selector twice, move to neutral then reverse 3 times, etc, it was a super long combo. It was so satisfying to see the CAN message that we entered test mode
They could’ve stopped at step 3 but they gave you 8 more steps to feel like a true hacker.
On for three seconds. Off for five seconds. On for three seconds. (rinse repeat)
I have a motorcycle that uses a keyfob, there’s a sequence of events using the stop-run switch and the turn signals so you can enter a code and get the bike to start.
What motorcycle is that?
The image shows the clutch and brake being pressed though…
Probably a gen-z trying to make jokes about cars.
My dad used to yell at me for trying to drive like this when I was a teenager!
Somehow my brain decided that if I needed to drive slower then I should just add some brakes instead of just letting off the gas…
That lasted about a week lol
I’ve always heard that this is how a lot of the “wrong pedal” accidents go. Two foot drivers get panicked in an accident and slam on both the gas and the brakes at the same time. I feel like the brake should be able to override the gas though. But I’ve never tried it and am not about to lol.
In many cars, they don’t.
I’m actually terrified of doing this in an automatic because I’ve been driving a manual so long. Nobody is making manuals anymore so I assume my next car will be an automatic and I’m going to need a strap for my left foot so I can’t accidentally do this lol.
Last time I drove an automatic I put it in reverse when I got to a stop sign because my hand just went for it and pushed the same amount I would in my car to get to neutral. That was the day that I learned both that the button on automatic shifters means nothing, and that I must sit on my right hand when driving one.
That muscle memory is a hell of a thing
When I’ve driven an auto rental a few times the most I accidentally do is try to put my left foot through the floor when going for the clutch that doesn’t exist. The brake is far enough to the right your engrained habits shouldn’t cause you to reach for it with you left.
I drive 2 feet automatic, the brakes do override the gas in a way (my Ford fiesta lurches hard then will slightly move forward (I tried out of curiosity)
why do people insist on talking relatively recent content and plagiarizing it mere days later? karma is even less meaningful here. what is the point?
I think it’s not Lemmy users plagiarising each other, it’s different Lemmy users plagiarising the same Reddit content.
yeah I’m sure you’re right about that
weird way to say “reposting”
I guess a repost to me is a share of the same content when it’s posted. what I’m seeing is a remake of the same thing a week or 2 later. it’s just so damn boring and pointless.
This is an emergency stop
Shouldn’t you pretty much always do this when coming to a stop in a manual??
When coming to a full stop, you may as well, but you could also put the car into neutral for the last bit of braking. Depressing the clutch allows you to quickly get back to driving again (in case you need to respond to traffic around you) but when you’re parking on a driveway you don’t really need that kind of response.
True! But only the Teslas do this
I had an old car whose engine would die if it didn’t get gas, so you would always be giving it a bit of gas at all times. When you came to a stop, you had to push slightly down on the gas and all the way down on the brake, otherwise the engine would shut off.
Also would allow you to take the key out of the ignition while the car was running and it would keep running so you could unlock house doors with your keys. My parents actually sent it into the shop to “fix” that. I still don’t know why they spent money to get rid of a feature. Were they afraid I would leave it on without the keys? The engine would just die without someone to push down on the gas petal.
Idk if I’m being elitist or flexing the fact that I’m poor but as a stick shift driver in the state of Vermont I often did this in winter to get the heat going granted I always had the clutch down as well
And if you take your shifter and go up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, brake, gas, you’ll add 30 months back onto your warranty!
The infotainment system in my friend’s truck would periodically get wonky and he would have to pull over, turn the truck off, wait a minute, then turn it back on.
We always joked that he had to do a Ctrl-Alt-Brake Pedal.
With my face on the windshield? Idk I don’t drive
Now I kinda wish there’s some equivalent graphic of someone doing heel-toe so you’d see all 3 pedals being mashed lol.
Probably better for your car than just the brake and gas as well
